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When Lyonel Feininger painted the Marktkirche in Halle in 1931, he chose the unusual location to the right of the side aisle. The Gothic structure and the twin towers connected by a bridge rise up darkly. Behind it, partly shining through the towers, the Red Tower, Halle's landmark, becomes visible, which he could not actually see from his chosen vantage point at the market. The two round street lamps justify the brightness of the nave and correspond with the illuminated windows in the background. Strong, sparsely structured vertical and diagonal lines dominate the picture. Added to this is Feininger's typical crystalline effect of colors. To achieve this, he had begun to wash the colors off several times in order to reapply them in varying densities, so that the materiality of the paint and its immaterial luminosity are balanced.

The “Marktkirche in Halle” belongs to Feininger's perhaps most significant series of so-called Halle paintings. It began with a commission from Alois Schardt, then director of the Municipal Museum, to paint a representative view of Halle.